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Week of action planned against license plate readers (spectrumlocalnews.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can you give examples of what parts can be repurposed? I would have assumed they were mostly proprietary.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.cehrp.org/dissection-of-flock-safety-camera/

    This article may be out of date, but it is quite clear that Flock just ordered a bunch of parts off AliBaba, slapped them together in an injection moulded enclosure, added some vibe-coded software and pumped them out after greasing some palms.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Interesting. Do they transmit full video streams or just the aggregated data taken from plates? Doesn't seem like there's a lot of processing power in those components.

    I think I need to park my car behind one of these with my cell phone/wifi jammers running.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you're handy with a soldering iron and know how to read a JTAG port, every chip on the pcb could be lifted and repurposed. Afaik a lot of them use miniature solar panels as power sources, which is absolutely repurposeable if you're comfortable crimping cables. This piece too far from my area of expertise to do more than just speculate on, but I have to assume they have optical components that could be repurposed by somebody with the right skillset too

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